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The Interpretation of a Storm Phobia. Miguel Sesser. Pp. 359-363.
These are sketchy communications. The first describes two types of nightmare found in analysts who are themselves undergoing analysis. These dreams show the problems encountered by two student analysands in dealing with introjection.
The second presents briefly the clinical history of a woman whose anxiety over storms could be shown to arise from four sources: 1, alterations in temperature of the atmosphere; 2, changes in the patient's psychological state, vegetative functions, and motility accompanied by great anxiety; 3, the rain, which was pleasant and was associated with physical lassitude; and 4, the annoyance the patient felt at being so disturbed. These manifestations are correlated with the patient's disturbing Oedipal fantasies involving primal scenes, and with the voyeuristic and sadistic impulses mobilized in her during storms. The phobia permitted her to gratify her Oedipal regressive wishes in relation to an ambivalent object love.